Re: DIS: phew!

2007-06-03 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On May 31, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On 5/31/07, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard Annabel mentioned several times. Is there someplace I could find a synopsis of this crisis? I don't think that anybody has ever written up a thesis on the subject, so your best bet

DIS: phew!

2007-06-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
Quazie wrote: that was around when I came around, and cards were around. There was much going on. Oh yes, it looks like there was lots of cards proto'd by quazie, as well as quazie's first scam... I thought that was a bit later. Yes, a good month! -Goethe

Re: DIS: phew!

2007-06-01 Thread Maud Lynn
On 5/31/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a nutshell, a player named Annabel played for a few months in 1999 and again for a couple of weeks in 2001. A couple of years later, it was revealed that Annabel was in fact an illegal dual registration and was never an actual player, throwing

DIS: phew!

2007-06-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
Maud wrote: Ultimately, a plurality of Agorans decided to Pretend It Hadn't Happened to avoid a tedious recalculation of the gamestate. Hey! I had a perfectly reasonable and valid legal argument to justify the pretense! One thing I particularly remember though, it caused an awful lot of

Re: DIS: phew!

2007-06-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud Lynn wrote: Ultimately, a plurality of Agorans decided to Pretend It Hadn't Happened to avoid a tedious recalculation of the gamestate. More precisely, they adopted a proposal to the effect of the entire gamestate is hereby set to what it would have been if Annabel had been a separate

Re: DIS: phew!

2007-06-01 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: Quantum Crisis A misnomer. I think of it as the 2662 crisis, or the Points crisis, because the issue was over whether proposal 2662, abolishing Points (for the first time), had passed. I only used the term Quantum for the imagery of the quantum wave function being progressively

DIS: phew!

2007-05-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
Just wanted to congratulate everyone on the second-most busy month in agoranomic.org discussion history (measured by bytes in archive file). Just thought we might make it, but conversation died out in the final few hours. Just barely lost out to April 2005; April 2005 had a April Fools joke

Re: DIS: phew!

2007-05-31 Thread Roger Hicks
I've heard Annabel mentioned several times. Is there someplace I could find a synopsis of this crisis? BobTHJ On 5/31/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to congratulate everyone on the second-most busy month in agoranomic.org discussion history (measured by bytes in archive

Re: DIS: phew!

2007-05-31 Thread Ian Kelly
On 5/31/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just barely lost out to April 2005; April 2005 had a April Fools joke that resulted in posting repeated copies of most of the ruleset in discussion forum, so maybe that's not a measure of discussion volume. On the other hand, current archives

Re: DIS: phew!

2007-05-31 Thread quazie
Ian Kelly wrote: On 5/31/07, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard Annabel mentioned several times. Is there someplace I could find a synopsis of this crisis? I don't think that anybody has ever written up a thesis on the subject, so your best bet is probably just to go digging